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Respectfully disagreeing: The Conversation Coalition

By Josh Deepan

January 28, 2025

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How do people find meaning? The Conversation Coalition began as a group of Christian and atheist friends seeking to have convivial discussions about their differences.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Programs Tagged With: atheism, Christian, Christianity, conversation coalition, faith, meaning, religion

How Nashville’s ex-evangelicals are making their own Christmas traditions

By Marianna Bacallao

December 19, 2024

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For the  growing number of women leaving the church, Christmas can be a particularly difficult time. So, some are making their own traditions.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Christmas, evangelical, lgbt, lgbtq, music, religion, United Methodist Church

NashVillager Podcast: Global Vision is ready to make nice with new neighbors

By Nina Cardona

November 21, 2024

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Is Wilson County’s controversial Global Vision Church really about to leave its big, white tent? Plus the local news for November 21, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Christianity, church, religion, Wilson County

NashVillager Podcast: Separation of church and Tennessee

By Nina Cardona

August 22, 2024

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How separate are church and state in our state? Plus the local news for August 22, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Christianity, religion

NashVillager Podcast: Witches in the church

By Nina Cardona

August 15, 2024

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Will moving a controversial church end the lawsuits in Wilson County? Plus the local news for August 15, 2024.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Mt. Juliet, religion

No drinking and only Christian music during Sunday Gospel Hour at Nashville’s most iconic honky tonk

By Luis Andres Henao, AP

August 11, 2024

Robert’s Western World is Nashville’s most iconic honky tonk and practically synonymous with country music. But for an hour on Sunday mornings no one can drink alcohol and they can only listen to Christian music.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, Christian, country music, gospel, honky-tonk, religion

30 years later, the evangelical purity movement still impacts sex education

By Magnolia McKay

August 1, 2024

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It was a breakout moment in the evangelical purity movement — a movement that impacts sex education in the United States to this day. Jill Dender was one of the first teens to sign the pledge while traveling with her youth group from Tulip Grove Baptist in Nashville

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, History, NPR News, WPLN News Tagged With: Christian, Christianity, evangelical, NPR, purity culture, religion, sex ed

Oops. Southern Baptist agency announces firing of its leader, then retracts that announcement.

By Peter Smith, AP

July 23, 2024

There’s been a head-spinning reversal of messages from the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. On Sunday, its leader applauded President Joe Biden’s “selfless act” of withdrawing his candidacy for re-election. On Monday, the agency announced the firing of that leader, Brent Leatherwood. But on Tuesday, it retracted that announcement.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: religion, Southern Baptist Convention

NashVillager Podcast: Politics and the Southern Baptist Convention

By Nina Cardona

June 13, 2024

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How does the annual national meeting of Southern Baptists affect Tennessee’s political landscape? Plus your local newscast for June 13, 2024.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: religion, Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptists narrowly reject formal ban on churches with any women pastors

By Peter Smith, APandHolly Meyer, AP

June 12, 2024

Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting have narrowly rejected a proposal to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination’s constitution. The outcome still leaves the SBC with its official doctrinal statement saying the office of pastor is limited to men.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, religion, Southern Baptist Convention

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